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POPSThe Winter Solstice ...and space travel. I haven't studied astronomy enough to understand fully how we came to know this. The axis is, after all, an imaginary line. But here's an eloquent perspective on that question from a Candlegrove visitor. Solstice means... standing-still-sun Such precision we have about it now! Winter solstice is when... ...because of the earth's tilt, your hemisphere is leaning farthest away from the sun, and therefore: The daylight is the shortest. The sun has its lowest arc in the sky.
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POPSTolstoy On Happiness "This posting is from me to your happiness, in all its pain and all it’s glory; in all its suffering and in all its celebration."
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POPSHave You Heard "The Hum"? Various features of modern life have been blamed - gas pipes, power lines, mobile phone masts, wind farms, nuclear waste, even low-frequency submarine communications. The internet is abuzz with rumour and speculation. There are dark mutterings about secret military activity, alien contact and government cover-ups. The hum even featured in an episode of the sci-fi drama "The X-Files". Such conspiracy theories are understandable, but unhelpful, according to Dr David Baguley, who's head of audiology at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge. He estimates that in about a third of cases there is some environmental source that can be tracked down and dealt with. "It may be a fridge or an industrial fan or a piece of heavy machinery at a nearby factory that is causing the disturbance and can be switched off," he says. Most of the time, however, there is no external noise that can be recorded or identified. You can hear an amplified recording of the hum, at the source.
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POPSProjecting Pain on to Others See also Fromm's 'The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness' Individuals with a deep hatred of themselves will project their loathing onto 'suitable targets of destruction'
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POPS2057: The World, The City, The Body 2057 is a Discovery Channel television program hosted by theoretical physicist Michio Kaku. It premiered on January 28, 2007 and attempts to predict what the world will be like in 50 years based on current trends. The show takes the form of a docu-drama with three separate episodes, each having informative stories ingrained into the plot. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2057_%28TV_series%29 Via {{thefoxalmighty}}'s clip
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POPSPatrick Swayze has passed away "If I leave this Earth, I want to leave this Earth just knowing I've tried to give something back and tried to do something worthwhile with myself," Swayze told Walters, when asked why he decided to do the show. "And that keeps me going, that gets me up in the morning. My work ... is my legacy."
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POPSThe Four Agreements This book meant a lot to me and still does. Four simple agreements...Changed my life. Of course I fall short but I think it would be neat for everyone to follow these four simple agreements.
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POPSChimps console each other to reduce stress after fights "When Fraser looked at who was consoling whom, he found that acts of consolation were more likely to happen between individuals with valuable relationships. Chimps tended to comfort peers who groomed them frequently, shared food with them or gave them a hand in their own conflicts. Other factors like how closely related they were had no such effects. "
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POPSThe Real William Ayers not a terrorist, not close to Obama, and a man with deep regrets. "Unable to challenge the content of Barack Obama’s campaign, his opponents invented a narrative"
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POPS13 Unsolved scientific puzzles http://www.michaelbrooks.org/ Times Archive: Necessity and free will, 1877 - http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/viewArticle.arc?articleId=ARCHIVE-The_Times-1877-10-26-04-003&pageId=ARCHIVE-The_Times-1877-10-26-04 Times Archive: Advertisement: The New Homoeopathy, 1914 - http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/viewArticle.arc?articleId=ARCHIVE-The_Times-1914-07-23-06-012&pageId=ARCHIVE-The_Times-1914-07-23-06
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POPSIf Only Literature Could Be a Cellphone-Free Zone Some writers are just rejecting modernity. M. J. Rose, whose books about reincarnation are the basis for a planned pilot on the Fox Network, intends to set her next book in 1948 in part so she can let missed connections and miscommunications simmer. “You miss a train in 1888 or even 1988, and have no way to contact the person waiting at the station on the other end,” she said. “He thinks you’ve changed your mind, been captured, weren’t able to escape. You miss a train in 2009 and you pull out your cell and text that you’ll be two hours late.”
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POPS Dog Dodges Freeway Traffic To Help His Canine Mother The dog was brought to animal care and control in East Harlem, where they gave her pain medication and made her comfortable. Then, a vet looked her over. "She was alert," Lisa Ortiz said. "She picked up her head, she knew she was getting help." She suffered a broken leg and is expected to recover. She also wore no ID, but her owner saw the drama on TV, went to the vet center and whisked her away to an animal hospital. The owner told animal control that the other dog, who he also owns, is home now. Ortiz says the relationship between the dogs explains a lot. "It was heartwarming, they look out for each other," she said. To view video click link http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=resources/traffic&id=6812473
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POPSBertolt Brecht Quote Collage "Mack the Knife" or "The Ballad of Mack the Knife", originally "Die Moritat von Mackie Messer", is a song composed by Kurt Weill with lyrics by Bertolt Brecht for their music drama Die Dreigroschenoper, or, as it is known in English, The Threepenny Opera. It premiered in Berlin in 1928. A moritat (from mori meaning "deadly" and tat meaning "deed") is a medieval version of the murder ballad performed by strolling minstrels The Brecht-Weill version of the character was far more cruel and sinister, and has been transformed into a modern anti-hero. The opera opens with the moritat singer comparing Macheath (unfavorably) with a shark, and then telling tales of his robberies, murders, rapes, and arson.
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